ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,117, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Simulation modeling exchange" was invented by Sahika Genc (Mercer Island, Wash.), Sunil Mallya Kasaragod (San Francisco), Leo Parker Dirac (Seattle), Bharathan Balaji (Seattle) and Saurabh Gupta (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation application container executes a simulation of a system in a simulation environment, through which an agent representing the system uses a reinforcement learning model to operate within the simulation environment. The simulation application container obtains data indicating how the agent performed in the simulatio...